The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a larger desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.

For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions improve is simply unknown.